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Sand Chain

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A small map for Doom II, but loaded with quality!

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Erick

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There honestly isn't much to talk about this WAD, it is pretty much a WAD of abysmal quality and has many errors that makes up the entire level. It's just a single "hallway" with missing textures everywhere after the level start, you can pretty much go outside the map, and there just isn't much to it. No point in touching this nor talking about it, a lot has already been said about it and exaggerating about isn't helpful either.

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geo

  

Believe the hype, Sand Chain is indeed a terrible map. Not terrible like oh this must be someone's first map or designed by a team of kinder gardeners and their friend in second grade who can use DoomBuilder, I'm talking hall of mirror walls, coupled with the fact you can go through the game's exit switches. The map is short and sweet, which only adds to how terrible it is. The level is a single hallway with... get this... a bend! Oh stay with me here... and then after that bend, there is a bank of switches! Yeah, that's it. The level isn't meant for Nightmare, but it should become everyone's first accomplishment of, "I can beat this level on nightmare."

I suppose in an artistic way, the hall of mirror affect on all walls is to disorient the player, so they miss the big twist at the end. Thus costing speed runners valuable seconds on their first play through. The big twist being the bend. Other than that, there are plenty of shotgun shells, shotgun troopers and health to ensure you make it to the end of this brutal and rigorous test of endurance over the course of 5 - 30 seconds.

This is the level that has become famous, because everyone needs to play it themselves to add their two cents of "it's crap" to the pile of reviews that will no doubt entice more people to play this game. It's a gorgeous display of everything wrong without the annoyance of having to play it for longer than a full minute. Complete with someone from an aol email to spice up it's true 1995 feel... despite being made in 2009.

 

* slow clap * You've done it. You've found a new twist on terrible.

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CountArchvile

  

Terrence For fucks sake...

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Doomkid

  

Pure waste.

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Chipchase

  

Absolutely ludicrous, Now I need a new keyboard. Technically as bad as a wad can be, surely deliberate. I like to check out low-rated wads, so it's a pity that some clowns gave this  (and other bad ones) 5 stars, because averaged with correct low scores they end up with a middling rating and can be missed.

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Whoa.... my eyes, this has to be the singlemost WORST map for doom ever conceived. A tunnel of HOM that is all you get here, and a noclip wall problem that lets you run into infinity. At the end of the tunnel occupied by shotgunners you get to a wall with 3 switches, Ta-Da! End of map. This is pure garbage of the worst kind avoid this one like the plague! 0/5

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I think this was on purpose.

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Terrible. 0/5

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Garbage. 0 stars

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Um... how this did get past? This is worse than wow.wad! You don't even know how to create a map! You didn't even playtest it obliviously! This is a piece of garbage. -1/1000

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pure crap and even worse! The good side is that there is no time to crate rating. How did doom builder let you make this? Even a retard can make good maps with doom builder! Which goes to show how much you suck at making maps even if you did use doom builder. 1994 is here again :( 0/5 stars -z34chris

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I thought it was funny

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You mis-spelt your name buddy - it should be TRASHMAN......

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CACOWARD MATERIAL!!! From the gripping, emotional storyline, to the badass graphics and difficult bosses, this WAD is a jewel among modern creations. 5/5

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Either he's really bad or just a newbie mapper. But since this is his only published wad I have to guess he's a amatuer. My advice is to play more maps to get ideas and read the doom builder manual and learn how to use doom builder to it's full potential.

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WHERE THE HELL IS THE LOADED WITH QUALITY THAT I EXPECTED WHEN DOWNLOADING THIS.... you have dissapointed me Ashman please take your map back and put it in the TRASHMAN, I mean trash can. 0/5

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Worst map ever. Is this even a map?

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I'm rating this minus one million stars! Might be better to review id=15857 instead.

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The exit was pretty creative

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This is awesome, please make more.

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Interesting visual effect, otherwise garbage. I've played worse wads, at least this one is short. 2 stars.

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worst wad ever. it allows you to run in any direction for ever. but at least it doesn't flash and/or make annoying sounds

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If the purpose of this is to demonstrate some quirks of the Doom engine, then fair enough, though it's nothing original. If it is an attempt to create a decent map, then it is awful. If it is a "joke", then it is pathetic.

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As said above, the exit was creative. I actually had to think there for a second.

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